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By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — The rivalry between GOP presidential candidates Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley has become a…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A minibus exploded in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul killing at least two civilians and…

By STEVE LeBLANC and SCOTT SONNER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Winter weather is battering parts of both U.S. coasts. In the West, a Sierra…

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will give his annual State of the Union address on March 7.  The…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. police have opened a fraud investigation into Britain’s Post Office over a miscarriage of…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press It has only taken 18 minutes to evacuate the 379 passengers of Japan Airlines Flight 516 after their plane burst…

BERLIN (AP) — The death toll from a fire in a hospital in Germany this week has risen to five. All of the victims were patients. Investigators are…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Thousands of mourners have attended a funeral for a Pakistani Sunni Muslim cleric gunned down in broad daylight on the outskirts…

By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea conducted a new round of artillery drills near the disputed sea boundary…

By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — In a solemn ceremony in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis has presided over…

By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer CHANIA, Greece (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Saturday that Turkey is committed to playing…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian officials say the death toll from an Islamic State group-claimed suicide bombing has risen to at least 91. State TV on…

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Thousands of Orthodox Christian worshippers have plunged into the wintry waters of rivers and lakes across Bulgaria to…

By JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s main opposition party has started a 48-hour general strike on the eve on a…

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates has acknowledged it is conducting a mass trial of 84…

By BASSEM MROUE, SAMY MAGDY and NAJIB JOBAIN Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah traded fire Saturday in one of the…

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government has acknowledged that it withdrew its forces from a key city on the…

By ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s justice minister says 15 of 34 people detained on suspicion of spying for Israel…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press COMMERCE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Republicans have voted to remove election denier…

By PETER SMITH Associated Press While much of the world has Christmas in the rearview mirror by now, people in some Eastern Orthodox traditions will…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s Defense Ministry has accused China of harassment and trying to affect public morale by repeatedly sending balloons…

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly is more aggressive and openly political in pushing to expand…

By HIRO KOMAE, AYAKA MCGILL and YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press WAJIMA, Japan (AP) — A woman in her 90s was pulled alive from a collapsed house in…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press Hundreds of Donald Trump supporters charged with storming the U.S. Capitol have faced the same choice in the…

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Judith Light from “Poker Face” and Nick Offerman and Storm Reid from “The Last of…

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — In the follow-up to their 2018 bestseller “How Democracies Die,” authors…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The countdown to Mardi Gras has begun in New Orleans. Saturday marks the arrival of Carnival…

By CLAIRE RUSH, DAVID KOENIG and BECKY BOHRER Associated Press Federal officials on Saturday ordered the immediate grounding of some Boeing 737 Max 9…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency says over the next month it plans to dramatically…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. agency promoting equality for women says violations of the U.N. Code of Conduct…